30 May 2014

The long-mooted arrival of the Internet of Things, along with the possibilities afforded by Big Data, stands to transform the way in which we engage with our civic environment. The world’s urban agglomerations, for the most part, have developed organically, but as the global population becomes increasingly urbanised, to what degree should technology play a role in helping to facilitate new models of city dwelling? Join our panel of thought-leaders to debate the good, the bad and the ugly of smart cities.

Do you know your cheese graters from your gherkins, your Goldfingers from your Gehrys? Then why not have a go at the greatest pub quiz to hit London? Part of London Festival of Architecture 2014.

The Great London Architecture Pub Quiz will act as a tonic to the festival’s more weighty events. In the grand tradition of pub quizzes, it will be fuelled by alcohol and raw knowledge. Categories will relate to this year’s theme, ‘Capital’. The quiz is open to everyone and aimed at urbanists, architectural enthusiasts and Londonophiles. Architectural practices are encouraged to enter as teams, capitalising on the friendly rivalries between their respective houses.

8 February 2014

We will be launching Issue no. 6 of P.E.A.R.
on Thursday 20 February at the British Council in London and it would be great
to see you there.R.S.V.P. is essential
as the capacity at the British Council is limited. Please R.S.V.P. by 17
February 2014 to:

25 October 2013

In Lutz Bacher's current exhibition, Black Beauty, the ground floor galleries of the ICA in London are filled with the textures and sounds of blackness. Coal dust crunches under foot and, through a curtain darkly, vibrations of the unknown oscillate in our reality. A fractured mirror reflects a self shattered by darkness and all is framed by the repetition of the final lines from A Midsummer's Night's Dream '...if by chance we shadows have offended...'

Upstairs, all is golden. A horse spins on its plinth as at a fairground carousel, while, next door, an elaborate game of chess is set up with Elvis countering a camel. It turns out that heaven is easily accessed by a flight of stairs. We have passed through the black skin of night to a new and brighter reality as the camel passes through the eye of a needle.

6 October 2013

many congratulations to AY Architects who have won the 2013 Stephen Lawrence Prize for their Montpelier Community Nursery in Camden. AY Architects will be contributing to the forthcoming issue of P.E.A.R., which is coming soon...
In the meantime, here are a few images of the nursery, which sits so happily in its garden context, facilitating the indoor-outdoor play that is central to children's learning.
Lucky kids.

11 March 2013

P.E.A.R. was very happy to be asked to contribute to the current guest-edited issue of RIBA Journal on 'Other Architectures', and even more thrilled to get the cover spot! Here is Avni's final design. The issue is out now in all good book shops.

New videos by Fiona James, Clunie Reid, Erica Scourti, Anne
Tallentire, Duncan White and Camilla Wills will be installed throughout the
fair.

'I Don't Want to
Write a PhD' panel discussion

11am - 12.30pm

Anat Ben-David, Sean Dockray and John Russell in a panel
discussion in the ICA Cinema. Chaired by Alison Green and Jo Morra

Tickets £5 (free to ICA Members) Book a place

'I Don't Want to
Write a PhD' workshop

1.30 - 6pm

A workshop following the talk led by Alison Green and
Rebecca Harris. Participants will produce a publication that extends the
mornings discussion and documents the events of the day.

Tickets £5 (free to ICA Members) Book a place

LOVE PABD

7pm-late

launches, readings and DJ-ing in the ICA Bar

ICA

The Mall

London

SW1Y 5AH

Organised by Louise O'Hare and Kate Phillimore as PABD in
association with the ICA. Videos curated by Three Letter Words and Duncan
White. Special thanks to The Block. 'I don't want to write a PhD' talk and
workshop organised by PABD/Three Letter Words in collaboration with the
Practices of Writing and Publishing research group at Central Saint
Martinsand in association with the
ICA.

18 February 2013

Carl Andre might be luring the crowds to Turner Contemporary this winter but the concurrent exhibition of work by Rosa Barba is worth much more than a glance. Barba presents film as sculpture, with visual equipment used to produce an absence of image.

On a grey day it was impossible to see the white space Barba is projecting on the sea outside the gallery, but this perhaps made the attempt to frame a small section of the limitless more moving. Her film, Subconscious Society, similarly ties land and water, tracing the marks left by industrial heritage on the landscape around Margate and also Manchester, where a parallel exhibition runs at The Cornerhouse.

20 January 2013

Thanks to everyone who came to the Architecture Foundation last week. Luckily we just about managed to squeeze in the launch before the snow arrived! If you weren't able to join us and are worried that you might have missed your chance to get your hands on a copy of the fantastic new issue, fear not. It is now available from all (very) good bookshops, as detailed to the right...

About

P.E.A.R. (Paper for Emerging Architectural Research) aims to re-establish the fanzine as a primary medium for the dissemination of architectural ideas, musings, research and works, and to present the complexity and variety of architectural practice. We actively seek to publish thinking that wouldn't ordinarily be seen in the mainstream architectural press, and we are interested in showing that the architectural is concerned with more than just architecture.
Editorial team: Rashid Ali, Matthew Butcher, Julian Krueger and Megan O’Shea.
Designed by: Avni Patel
Contact: info@pearmagazine.eu

Stockists

In London you can try Foyles on Charing Cross Road, Artwords Bookshop on Rivington Street, The AA Bookshop, RIBA Bookshop and Walther Koenig Books at the Serpentine.

In Manchester you can find us at the RIBA Hub and at Corner House and in Glasgow we are sold at the Aye-Aye Book Depot.

In Berlin P.E.A.R. is sold at Buchhandlung Walther Koenig and PRO qm, and in Lisbon we are available at Tema. In Amsterdam you can find us in Athenaeum Boekhandel.

P.E.A.R. is also sold in the bookshop at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and we are available in other cities across Europe and in far-flung destinations including Taipai, Australia and New Zealand.